Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good come?—the verse extends the principle of divine sovereignty to cover all outcomes, both good and calamitous. The question suggests that God is responsible for both blessing and cursing, both flourishing and destruction. Theologically, the verse presents a unitary divine will: God is not divided between good and evil outcomes. This is a profound affirmation of monotheism: there is only one source, and that source is responsible for all. Yet the verse raises the problem: if God sends both good and calamities, is there a distinction between good and evil? The verse seems to suggest that both are manifestations of God's will. This is theodicy at its most difficult: the assertion that God is responsible for evil as well as good.

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